Report details trafficking in gold, antiquities, and human beings during and after “catastrophic” war. Cover photo: The Sentry
Addis Abeba – A newly released report presents detailed evidence indicating that Eritrea’s leaders actively planned and prepared for the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region well before hostilities erupted.
The report also found evidence indicating that the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) engaged in and orchestrated industrial-scale looting operations during and after the war in the Tigray region.
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The trafficking of gold, antiquities, and human beings occurred alongside gang rape, torture, kidnapping, and mutilation, the new report, “Power and Plunder: The Eritrean Defense Forces Intervention in Tigray,” by released The Sentry, an investigative and policy organization that seeks to “disable multinational predatory networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy,” revealed.
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Eritrea’s leaders played an active role in planning the war, anticipating the outbreak months before the first shots were fired and working with and through Ethiopia under its new and inexperienced prime minister to punish Tigray and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF),” The Sentry said. Read more…